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Tree Watering Tips
Did you know our watering crew visits 1000 trees weekly? If you have the means, we'd love your help with watering. Read our tips below! ...
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- Apr 9
- 3 min
Street Tree Myths... and Truths
Here are a few of the most common myths about street trees... along with the relevant facts you need to know.
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- Jun 12, 2023
- 1 min
Growing Green Careers
Our workforce development programs offer youth and adults the opportunity to steward the urban landscape while developing job skills.
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- Mar 27, 2023
- 2 min
Replacing what we’ve lost
Our rainstorms over the past couple of months brought down hundreds of street trees in San Francisco — trees we can hardly afford to...
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- Feb 23, 2023
- 2 min
Our new Adopt-A-Yard-Tree program
Earlier this month, Friends of the Urban Forest launched our new Adopt-A-Yard-Tree program to give free trees to eligible San Francisco...
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- Jan 11, 2023
- 1 min
New Year, New Programs, Updated Mission
At Friends of the Urban Forest, we connect people to nature and each other by planting and caring for San Francisco’s trees and gardens....
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- Jan 1, 2023
- 2 min
What We've Accomplished Together
As we start a new year, we'd like to share with you a review of things we've accomplished together. We've been working hard to bring the...
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- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
Treeless Streets Can Get Greener
A personal note by Karla Nagy, Vice President for Operations Dear Friend, If you moved to San Francisco from elsewhere, as I did, you...
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- Oct 7, 2022
- 2 min
Trees Are Cool(ing)
Did you know that San Francisco is the third-fastest-warming city in California? Fortunately, there’s a simple solution that can change...
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- Sep 12, 2022
- 2 min
Planting Positivity
As a Community Planting Manager for Friends of the Urban Forest, I transform streets and neighborhoods by planting street trees. I love...
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- Jun 20, 2022
- 1 min
Greener Block Award 2022
Friends of the Urban Forest chose the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District as the winner of its 10th annual Brian Tsai Greener Block Award....
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- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
Minimizing tree losses, maximizing tree love
Planting trees today will protect all of us, especially the most vulnerable, from the hotter climate ahead.
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Rebuilding our volunteer workforce is an urgent job
It’s a time of year for giving thanks, and I’m thankful that volunteers will soon be able to join our tree plantings again. We suspended...
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- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
Preparing for a Dangerously Hotter Future
The extreme heat events we’re witnessing in the West are frightening. We’re way past the point of a “wake-up call” when it comes to our...
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